PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 24 November 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

. W. N. 'Grinlinton, a very old resident of Woodville and Napier, died yesterday morning, aged 84. Ihe Rev. Dawson Thomas, vicar of Holy Trinity, Gisbornc, has accepts! ait appointment to the Rectorship of Dubbo, New South Wales. , Mr. J. Farn 11, representing ,T. 0. Williamson Ltd., arrived last night to complete anangeirents for the production by Julius Knight and company of "A Royal Divorce" on Thursday, December 3rd. It is stated that Mr. Edmund Clifton, Director of tlir Jmcl([ Division of the Department of Agriculture, will retire on superannuation on tile completion of his present appointment in charge Oi the New Zealand, exhibit at the Panama I'.xpcsition.—Press Association. Mr. J. ).!. Campbell, stationn:aster, was r-t the Stratford Railway Station yesterday morning made the Recipient of a set of ebony-backed brushes from the lccal carriers. Air. .T. Siicahan made the referring to the good relationship existing between the 'urriers and the popular S.M. M>r. Campbell suitably replied—Post. Tha death is recorded of one of Marlborough's early settlers in the person of iMre. Leahy, relict of the. late Mr. Leahy, Waivani'arina. The deceased lady died suddenly at her lato residenco, Douglas street, on aStitrday morning from a heart seizure. She is survived by a grown-up family of two daughter* an dfour sons, to whom much sympathy , is extended.

Mr. Richard Lloyd George' and Mr. Gwilym Lloyd George, the two sons of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been gazetted to be second-lieutenant; ii; the Territorial Infantry—the (itli (Carnarvonshire and Anglesy) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The Chancellor himself in the days of his youth, when lie was 16 years of age was a volunteer, and in the summer of 1883 lit was in camp on Conway Marsh, but he never rose above tho rank of "private." ' " ; '• ■ I ' , -*■ ■" ;